Health is the basic fundamental right of a human and it must be equally available and access to healthcare must not be refused to anyone. For healthcare to be readily available to everyone, the system needs to decentralized and authority needs to be delegated to the local governments instead of the central government. At the same time, it is equally important to provide these services at an affordable cost. To expand the effectiveness of healthcare programs in India, the emphasis should be on increasing the number of hospitals, modernizing research centres, expanding infrastructure, refining the medical doctor-to-population ratio, and increasing the number of scientific schools. The availability of modern facilities in rural regions is still bleak. Furthermore, health care centres need to be reachable and less expensive for everyone.

Here is how healthcare system of India can be improved:

  • Appropriate physical environment:

To enable the delivery of quality services, the area must be planned, organized, and maintained. There must be a steady and sufficient supply of Medicines, supplies, and equipment at the facility.

  • Well-trained and dedicated Healthcare Staff:

All departments of the hospital should have sufficiently knowledgeable, well-trained staff and to handle the projected work pressure. Low social respect, low wage, lengthy working hours, inadequate staffing, and absence of fully functional facility surroundings are all detrimentsto providing appropriate care.

  • Concentrate on the Patients:

The chief indicator of quality is the way the requirements and expectation of the patients are met. Services that are personalized according to patients and their community’s needs and expectations include systems that affect patient convenience, evidence-based health-care delivery, patients’ welfare, encouragement for patient participation, adequate patient care coordination with other departments, cultural competence, which includes evaluating patients’ health literacy and patient-dedicated care.

  • Decentralization:

Decentralization of financial resources has amplified the proficiency of health care. Key policy and strategic decisions on decentralizing human resource management, increasing budgetary allocation to the governing authorities, and bringing in community participation for policy making is required.

  • Expansion of Infrastructure:

Infrastructure is a vital factor in accomplishing the core goal of upgrading the quality of treatment and welfare for all patients, as well as a constructive experience with the healthcare system. Concurrently, the healthcare system and its staff must encourage population-wide health promotion, prevention, and self-care.The goal is to deliver improved, quicker, and affordable healthcare by endorsing and provide support to essential procedures and utilizing technology to provide flexible and adaptable distribution. This can only be done by the formation of organizational systems bent on providing superior, long-standing, patient-centered services, with both strategic and spontaneous care coordination so that these are not dependent on each other.

  • Curbing the doctor-to-population deficit:

There is currently a deficit of 600,000 doctors in India when compared to the massive population. For this purpose, India aims to establish 200 new medical institutions in the next 10 years to compensate for this deficit. In 2017, 1.8 million registered medical graduates are serving 1.33 billion Indians, according to a rigorous count. As of 2017, the ratio was 1.34 doctors per 1,000 Indian populations.

  • Augmenting the number of medical colleges:

In the preceding decades, the Indian medical school system has been able to make a substantial improvement, effectively doubling the number of MBBS graduate (modern medicine training) posts. With over 479 medical schools, India can now accommodate 67,218 MBBS students per year in medical colleges governed by the Medical Council of India. India also generates medical graduates who are trained in AYUSH (Ayurveda, Yoga, Unani, Siddha & Homeopathy) which is governed by the Central Council for Indian Medicine.

  • Establishing new hospitals:

The most important aspect of a hospital is to deliver a short-time period to take care of patients who are in need of emergency attention as a result of an injury, disease, or genetic disorder. Hospitals treat patients with critical and chronic health problems 24×7 by bringing together an experienced team of doctors, a trained nursing staff, a wide range of medical specialists, health care managers, and specialized equipment. Emergency treatment, planned procedures, labor and delivery services, diagnostic tests, lab work, and patient education are all available at many hospitals. Patients may get inpatient or outpatient care from a hospital, contingent on their medical disorder.

Health is a basic human right as well as a global social purpose. It is essential for the accomplishment of better quality of life. Health is a  very important factor that impacts a country’s overall economic growth potential. Since good health is a criterion for good progress, even the under developing countries are prioritizing investments in the healthcare sector.